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Legal scholars read statutes, judgments, and other scholars. Trial transcripts are scandalously overlooked. Judgments present a tidy case. Transcripts show cases being made and unmade in real-time. My new paper examines expert evidence in a big telecom case ⬇️ 1/
More scummy deeds by scummy people working in a scummy tech company sounds like “usual programming” to me!
We interrupt our usual programming to inform you that I was never hired by Facebook to do a hit job on Jonathan Haidt.
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Spineless delegation to the medical profession of interpreting the Criminal Code, without any transparency or accountability. Shameful doesn’t even begin to describe this.
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The federal government introduced Bill C-41 today. It would let MAiD be approved after a person can no longer consent. If they pull their arm away as the needle goes in, a clinician decides whether that means no. I asked officials what in the bill guides that call. 1/
ALT Two timelines divided by a dashed line marking when a person can no longer consent. Waiver of final consent, in the Criminal Code since 2021, where death must be reasonably foreseeable: the person is assessed and approved, and the date is set in writing, while they can still consent. Advance request under Bill C-41, where death need not be foreseeable: the request is signed months or years earlier, and the person is assessed and approved only after they can no longer consent. On both timelines, a clinician decides whether pulling away is refusal before MAiD goes ahead. A note says advance directives are different: they cover future treatment and can’t request MAiD.
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Unravelling MAiD (linked in the thread & available online for free) is a required read authored by field & patient experts. It’s a critical examination of Canada’s death program through the lens of law, policy, ethics, disability rights & more. I highly encourage you to read it
I definitely don't say this often enough but I'm extremely grateful to @rljcoelho @TrudoLemmens and @Psych_MD for including me in their book. Not to even mention their tremendous support and encouragement.
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"What is the use of Greek and Latin literature? I have to answer this in a very few pages: therefore I must be dogmatic. But I shall say nothing I am not prepared to prove, in detail, against any challenge: in most cases I have the proof already written." antigonejournal.com/2024/11/…
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Humanists should be snobby about the fact that they are stewarding a tradition that stretches back thousands of years rather than doing busy work involving little technical puzzles. Instead they find dumb “research” niches to fill because STEM gave them an inferiority complex.
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Opinion @mtlgazette
MAID is not a solution for dementia I'm a doctor who cares for Alzheimer’s patients.
Canada is wrong to open the door to advance consent
- Dr. Catherine Ferrier, division of geriatric medicine at the McGill University Health Centre
montrealgazette.com/opinion/…
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One of the enduring characteristics of right-wing rhetoric is to redirect blame for social unhappiness from the practices and institutions left intellectuals usually criticize to the fact that left intellectuals are criticizing...
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They sure have. And as someone who has testified before parliamentary committees on MAID three times, I can tell you the hostility and aggressiveness towards any criticism or challenge of MAiD during this last round was unparalleled. Senator Wells was a big part of why.
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"Barriers" has become a repetitive buzzword, used as a blanket label for any rule, law, or regulation. Deliberate obscuring of intent when those act as safeguards, protections and requirements to prevent abuse and protect lives.
It renders word meaningless & as a crip I object.
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"I was warned about this by people opposing the law that told me, 'We see your motivation is good, but you will see, once you open the door you will not close it and it will open wider.' And this is what happened," he said.
🎤 Philippe Couillard on CBC linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
Totally correct & one could add: there’s this little thing called the Rule of law & because of it, MDs are accountable to the law whether they like it or not (as everyone else); the law is the last word; the alternative is MDs above the law (though surely some would love that).
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My oped in @TorontoStar on why we must further suspend #MAID #Euthanasia for mental illness & address current problems with MAID practice + separate that from advance requests for MAID. Online version has links for all points made thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
Absolutely.
If there is anyone who you should support for thoughtful commentaries on various issues, particularly MAID and disability-related issues, it is @mssinenomine. You can disagree, and challenge her, which I trust she'd like, but you won't regret from having been pushed to think
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Mikhail Gorbachev feeding a squirrel, 1989.
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I haven’t been writing regularly on substack and part of that is because of health issues I’ve been dealing with. But the other part is I don’t have many paid subscriptions and I’m kind of over watching my work copied and pasted by those who get paid & access to write/speak.